Shehzad Qazi
Shehzad Qazi is Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of China Beige Book, the creator of the largest private in-country, data-collection network ever developed to track the Chinese marketplace. Since 2012, he has helped develop data collection for the China Beige Book™ platform and supervised the analytics team. Qazi is a public opinion researcher specializing in crisis and transitional countries. He has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, the Taliban insurgent movements, and U.S. counterinsurgency. Prior to joining CBB, he worked at a strategic public opinion research firm and conducted market intelligence polling in emerging and frontier economies. He was also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Policy, a non profit and non-partisan think tank in Washington D.C.
Shehzad Qazi Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer
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Junior Research Scholar, Department of Economics
Academic History
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M.A., International Relations and Affairs
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B.A., International and Global Studies
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Managing Director and COO, China Beige Book
Board Chair, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts
Advisor, Indiana University Alumni Association
As the firm-wide operations lead, Qazi oversees product innovation, client services, new business acquisition, and corporate strategy at China Beige Book.
He has also designed innovative services and macro strategic and sectoral products for CBB's financial markets and corporate clients.
CBB helps institutional investors and corporate CEOs navigate China's notoriously black box economy.
EXPERTISE & EARLY CAREER
Shehzad specializes in emerging and frontier markets, as well as crisis and transitional countries.
He is an expert in setting corporate strategy, driving product innovation and profitable new business acquisition, and maintaining client relationships.
He has conducted macroeconomic, market intelligence, and strategic communications research on behalf of corporate, government and nonprofit clients in the United States, Asia, South Asia, Middle East, and Africa.
He was a Senior Project Manager at Charney Research, where he focused on strategic market research, firm-wide management, client management, and thought leadership.
He served as a Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and a Junior Research Scolar at New York University.
MEDIA & SPEAKING
Shehzad is a frequent guest on major national news networks including CNBC, Bloomberg, and CNN and speaks regularly at investor conferences.
His articles have appeared in Barron’s, Foreign Policy, and Huffington Post, among other publications.
He has appeared in Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, CNN, Business Insider, and Real Vision, among others.